Registering Dangerous Strangers: Psychology and Justice in the Politics of the Sex Offender Registry

My dissertation addresses the phenomenon of stranger danger to children and tries to answer the question of how the category of sex offender has been produced to become the primary target in contemporary sex crime control. I examine the period from the 1960s through the 1990s, the period beginning w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: You, Jin
Other Authors: Science and Technology in Society
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54556